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What do you get when you mix lots of sun and forgetting to put sunscreen on your back?

LOTS OF COLD SHOWERS!!!!!!!!

Other than that major mistake my family and I had a great time! The first couple of days were rough because I injured the muscles in my back the week before but after doing some exercises to strengthen the muscles I was back to about 90%. Good enough to do some activities like going to the beach, 4 wheeling, jet-skis and a charter boat fishing trip.

The weather was a little rainy but when it rained it only rained for less than an hour which was good. LOTS OF PUDDLES TO DRIVE THROUGH!! Yippee!!!! ASk anyone who knows me. If I see a puddle while driving you'll usually hear VROOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM SWOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!! AFter the rain there were planty of puddles to go around especially in the 4 wheel drive access area behind the beach up in Corova.

I highly recommend going up to the 4 wheel drive access area because you can take your SUV or truck right on the beach and park where ever you like and just get out and set up your beach stuff. Beats walking and carrying everything to the beach from the parking areas. But be careful, if you get stuck it'll cost you $125 to get towed out. There is a guy who drives up and down the beach all day looking for people who are stuck. I bet he makes 1500 to 2000 smackaroonies a day doing that because right in front of us there were about 4 or 5 people who got stuck.

Make sure you have a good 4 wheel drive vehicle and if you do get stuck don't use plastic shovels to dig yourself out like I saw this one group of people doing.

We also went crabbing on the sound between the outer banks and the mainland. I was quickly reminded why I like snow crab and king crag much better. Eating those small blue crab are a lot of work for very little meat. Amanda and I abandoned our cooked and uneaten crab and went straight to the nearest crabhouse for an all you can eat snow-crab leg extravaganza. Plate after plate they would bring them out to do. Hot and full of good crab meat. Yum!!!

Below are some photographs that were taken while on vacation. Enjoy!!!

UPDATE FOR MY CLIENTS:

I am hitting the ground running and have loads of editing to do so I am tackling everything with full force.

Lipka, Ehrlich, Brody, Katz, Vanderau, Heiserman, Turkheimer, Kandel Smoliga. If any of those names match yours than that means you are all at the front of my mind and am feverishly YET CAREFULLY working on your portraits so don't anyone worry that good ole Josh got amnesia due to too much sun. The sun may burn my back but not my brain =). That was the beer's job LOL.

Thanks for reading and if anyone has any questions please call me. 888-517-6374 or e-mail me at Josh@JoshBarry.Com

Watch very closely at the end…who is that?

Remember Corley and Gina Heiserman?

Well little Lindsey made it here with no problems a couple of weeks ago and has come back for her newborn session.

I'd like to take this moment and point out how great Corley is when it came to handling his new daughter. What I mean is he got pooped on and peed on and he didn't break a sweat. Well Gina didn't break a sweat either but luckily she wasn't the one with newborn poop on her shirt.

Other than that the session went fantastic and I can't wait to post more images after I am done mastering all of them first.

Here is a sneak preview.

Leslie and Troy came to us from Camp Hill Pennsylvania.

Very laid back and easy going Leslie and Troy came over to my studio over in Harrisburg for her maternity session. Her favorite color was blue , which we decided was probably a shade or two darker than electric blue. So off to Jo-Annes fabrics I went to search for the perfect blue. I came across this fabric which was INDIGO. I think it photographed PERFECTLY. I knew it would photograph darker than it actually looked to which I thought I would darken it even more in my mastering process I do in photoshop however I hardly had to touch it.

I think it was all lit very very well and Leslie's skin tones were a perfect match for this color. This will look AMAZING hanging in their home.

Also here is one of the both of them together. I like this dramatic moody look I have been playing with for the past few months.

I know Leslie will be happy to see a preview of some of these images. She wasn't too happy with me when I was teasing her by showing a photo or two to Troy from the back of my camera and not to her.

You're a good sport Leslie.

camp hill maternity photography

So much fun….so much dancing. Shlock Rock was amazing and kept the guests moving all night long.
I wanted to share one quick one with everyone. This was taken at the end of the night right when we had one last glimmer of sunlight at the horizon line.

If you look really close you might be able to see Dina wearing her crocs under her wedding dress! =)

Dina and David were so much fun the whole night. Their stamina (and their guests as well) was far beyond what I could handle if I were to dance as much as they did. What a night!